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Bug 1397347 (CVE-2016-7433) - CVE-2016-7433 ntp: Broken initial sync calculations regression
Summary: CVE-2016-7433 ntp: Broken initial sync calculations regression
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-7433
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1397351 1411642 1411643 1411644 1411645
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-22 11:00 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:00 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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A flaw was found in the way ntpd calculated the root delay. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted spoofed packet to cause denial of service or in some special cases even crash.
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Last Closed: 2017-02-06 06:50:38 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0252 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: ntp security update 2017-02-06 11:16:56 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-22 11:00:52 UTC 
Bug 2085 described a condition where the root delay was included twice, causing the jitter value to be higher than expected. Due to a misinterpretation of a small-print variable in The Book, the fix for this problem was incorrect, resulting in a root distance that did not include the peer dispersion. The calculations and formulae have been reviewed and reconciled, and the code has been updated accordingly.

External References:

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3067
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-11-22 11:09:40 UTC 
Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397351]
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-04 08:21:54 UTC 
Analysis:

When an offpath attacker can spoof the first ntp reply, ntpd will jump and when it gets a real response, it will exit.
Comment 4 Keyur Pujara 2017-01-16 11:30:34 UTC 
Is an RPM released with fix for this. I haven't seen one @ http://mirror.centos.org. 

If not released, what is ETA for same?

Thanks, Keyur
Comment 5 Brian Hinz 2017-01-31 14:18:18 UTC 
Wondering the same thing.  Is an errata update for el6/el7 forthcoming?  Thanks.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-06 06:17:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:0252 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0252.html
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